Project Goals and Objectives Beginning in 2003, Nova Doba and IDEI began a project to accomplish the
tasks of dissemination, training and evaluation. This project conducted
a series of activities using the developed materials “We
Are Citizens of Ukraine” as the focus. This course has been designed
to focus on the basic concepts of civic education (citizenship competencies,
place of the individual, fundamentals and foundations of constitutionalism
and constitutional democracy, models of democracy, fundamental rights, freedoms
and duties) and uses the active teaching and learning methodology for democratic
learning.
Specifically, the objectives of this project were:
1. print an additional 8700 copies of the course materials; 2. recruit 200 teacher trainers as project participants; 3. conduct four train-the-trainers workshops in four different regions
of
Ukraine; 4. conduct an evaluation of the effect of the materials on teachers and
student
knowledge and attitudes about democracy. |
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Yalta ConferenceThe "Train the Trainers" workshop in Yalta was successfully conducted
by the US -Ukrainian Civic Education Dissemination Project in close partnership
between the All-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History and Social Studies “Nova
Doba” and Bowling Green State University, State Ohio, USA. The workshop
was held October 8-12, 2003 in Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The
main goal of the workshop was to prepare trainers for further instructing
teachers on teaching the course “We are Citizens of Ukraine” and
civic education in general. |
